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The Strong and Weak Senses of Theory-Ladenness of Experimentation:Theory-Driven versus Exploratory Experiments in the History of High-Energy Particle Physics
scientific experimentation theory-ladenness exploratory experimentation SLAC deep-inelastic scattering experiments particle physics quantum field theory S-matrix theory Regge theory Bjorken's scaling hypothesis Feynman's parton model quarks QCD
2016/5/30
In the theory-dominated view of scientific experimentation, all relations of theory and experiment are taken on a par; namely, that experiments are performed solely to ascertain the conclusions of sci...
Individuality,quantum physics,and a metaphysics of non-individuals:the role of the formal
non-individuals individuality quantum objects identity
2016/5/30
The notion of an individual and the related issues on individuation are topics that appear in the philosophical discussion ever since the antiquity. The idea of an individual thing is intuitively clea...
Plantinga on Providence and Physics
miracles God provisos conservation of energy physicalism
2016/5/30
Discussion of Alvin Plantinga's book, "Where the Conflict Really Lies".
We review the current situation in the philosophy of time, partly to investigate Michael Dummett’s complaint that the philosophy of physics has become too specialized and technical to be able to commu...
How to combine and not to combine physics and metaphysics
physics metaphysics modality possibility time quantum mechanics interpretation manifest image scientific image
2016/5/30
In this paper I will argue that if physics is to become a coherent metaphysics of nature it needs an “interpretation”. As I understand it, an interpretation of a physical theory amounts to offering (1...
Physically locating the present:a case of reading physics as a contribution to philosophy
HPS Newton special relativity presentism law-constitutive
2016/5/27
In this paper I argue that reading history of physics as a contribution to history of philosophy is important for contemporary philosophy of physics. My argument centers around a particular case: spec...
On Time in Quantum Physics
time quantum mechanics uncertainty principles Busch Hilgevoord Uffink
2016/5/27
First, I briefly review the different conceptions of time held by three rival interpretations of quantum theory: the collapse of the wave-packet, the pilot-wave interpretation, and the Everett interpr...
The Role of Physics in Science Integration
Knowledge Integration Reductionism Emergentism Special Relativity General Relativity Perception Multidimensional geometry Albert Einstein,Smooth Infinitesimal analysis
2015/8/3
Special and General theories of relativity may be considered as the most significant examples of integrative thinking. From these works we see that Albert Einstein attached great importance to how we ...
Unity and change in Newton's physics
unity change perduring enduring law-constitutive Newton
2011/9/7
Here is a problem at the heart of the metaphysics of the natural world: How, if at all, can a unity undergo change? This problem incorporates two questions. First, in virtue of what is a thing a genui...
“The Experience of Left and Right”Meets the Physics of Left and Right
Incongruent counterparts Right
2009/11/18
I consider an argument, due to Geoffrey Lee, that we can know a priori from the left-right asymmetrical character ofexperience that our brains are left-right asymmetrical. Lee's argument assumes a pre...
The projection problem and the symmetries of physics: On the possibility of the scientific realist case
The projection problem symmetries physics
2009/9/16
Dr Harvey Fields, of Czech origin, trained in physics in the US and published several papers on plasma physics in the 1960s. In the late 1970s, he obtained a PhD in history and philosophy of science a...
Quantum physics, causation, and the GRW dynamics
causal properties classical properties direction of time
2009/9/16
The paper makes a case for there being causation in the form of causal properties in the domain of fundamental physics. That case is built on an interpretation of quantum theory in terms of state redu...
On various senses of “conventional” and their interrelation in the philosophy of physics: simultaneity as a case study
conventionality simultaneity relativity theory
2009/9/16
My aim in this note is to disambiguate various senses of ‘conventional’ that in the philosophy of physics have been frequently conflated. As a case study, I will refer to the well-known issue of the c...
This paper begins by tracing interest in emergence in physics to the work of condensed matter physicist Philip Anderson. It provides a selective introduction to contemporary philosophical approaches t...
Norton (2003 and 2006) has recently argued that causation is merely a useful folk concept and that it fails to hold for some simple systems even in the supposed paradigm case of a causal physical theo...